Year 7 Science

Science glossary - free iOS app

Earth and space

• Solar eclipses - NASA
• NASA - free iOS app
• What is a solar eclipse? - NASA

• Eclipses of the sun and moon - US Naval Observatory
• Lunar eclipses - NASA
• Lunar eclipse - NASA

• Phases of the moon - US Naval Observatory
• Phases of the moon - NASA
• Phases of the moon - The History Channel

• Earth's yearly rotation around the sun
• Moon orbit and rotation
• Eclipses and the moon's orbit - NASA
• Sun - NASA
• Moon and astronomy calculator
• Moon phases - Melbourne Planetarium
• Planet movement animation

• Rotation and revolution of the earth video
• How earth's tilt causes seasons - Khan Academy

How Earth's Tilt Causes Seasons: How being Earth's tilt causes seasons

• The Sun and the seasons - Museum Victoria
• 3D sun - free iOS app
• Skyview - free iOS app
• Gravity and orbits - University of Colorado

• Introduction to gravity - Khan Academy

Introduction to Gravity: Basics of gravity and the Law of Universal Gravitation

• Solar system simulation - University of Colorado

• Scale of the solar system - Khan Academy

Scale of Solar System: Scale of Solar System

• Build your own solar system - NASA
• Eyes on the solar system - interactive multimedia - NASA
• Telescopes and space probes- NASA
• Australia Telescope National Facility - CSIRO
• Satellites - Discovery Channel

• Satellites and space probes - Scholastic

Other science stuff
Jefferson Lab - fun science experiment videos
Sick science experiments

Famous scientists: Marie Curie